Featuring: Ingrid Kertesi, Tamás Albert, Viktor Massányi – singers, Children’s Choir of the Gödöllő Frédéric Chopin Music School (choirmaster: Andrea Lázár Nagy) and the National Choir (choirmaster: Mátyás Antal) Conductor: Tamás Gál Doráti–Serly–Pártos–Frid–Veress: Variations on a theme by Kodály (gratitude from his pupils) Orff: Carmina Burana Works in the musical literature which were written by several composers were usually homages to an earlier great figure, often a teacher. For... Zoltán Kodály’s eightieth birthday his students celebrated with a twenty minute set of variations. The work falls into five sections, and its theme is from Kodály’s First String Quartet. It was first performed in 1962. The introduction and finale was by Antal Doráti, the first variation by Tibor Serly, the second by Ödön Pártos, the third by Géza Frid while the fourth was the work of Sándor Veress. Carmina Burana (Songs of Beuren) is a reference to a small village in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps which houses the Benedictine Abbey in which the German scholar Johann Andreas Schmeller found the 13th century manuscript in 1847. This work gathers about one thousand poems and songs, mostly in vulgar Latin, in the spirit of “carpe diem”. Carl Orff selected twenty four to set to music. Although it was originally planned as a stage work, with choreography and visual elements, today this now exceptionally popular work is most usually heard as a cantata. From January to March 2005, before its official opening, the Palace of Arts underwent a testing phase during which Hungarian orchestras performed almost daily, giving us not only a sense of the hall’s capabilities but also presenting a fascinating picture of Hungary’s orchestral life. The positive experiences gathered during this “spontaneous” festival spawned the concept of turning it into a permanent feature of the Palace of Arts’ concert series and it has now become an established new tradition. Thus in 2006, the series Symphonia Hungarorum – Hungarian Symphonic Panorama was created and in 2007, no less than fifteen Hungarian symphonic ensembles will represent themselves at the festival. As last year, the orchestras are free to choose their own programmes with the proviso they perform in each concert at least one 20th or 21st century Hungarian work.
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